[1] If so, his father and uncle Lucius were staunch supporters of the popularist faction of Cinna.
[2] Censorinus is one of the two named friends of Publius Crassus who died with him at the Battle of Carrhae.
During the battle, Censorinus is among those who ride with young Crassus on a last desperate cavalry foray; after sustaining heavy casualties, the Romans and their Gallic auxiliaries retreat to a sand dune, where hope is soon lost under the constant barrage of Parthian arrows.
[4] He is named in the company of four other young nobiles who seemed willing to support Quintus if he were to be prosecuted as a result of his governorship.
Other close members of the Censorinus family were supporters of Antonius as triumvir, and one of them, the consul of 39 BC, came into possession of Cicero's house on the Palatine after his death.